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      <title>The Cucumber Book</title>
      <link>http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356807/</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356807/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9781934356807/bkt.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Your customers want rock-solid, bug-free software that does exactly what they expect it to do. Yet they can't always articulate their ideas clearly enough for you to turn them into code. &lt;em&gt;The Cucumber Book&lt;/em&gt; dives straight into the core of the problem: communication between people. Cucumber saves the day; it's a testing, communication, and requirements tool - all rolled into one.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:10:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:date>2012-01-31T21:10:17Z</dc:date>
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      <title>This Week in Ruby: Rails 3.2, Rails Tutorial, and Why You Should Learn Smalltalk</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5806</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;It's the latest Web-based syndication of &lt;a
    href="http://rubyweekly.com/"&gt;Ruby Weekly&lt;/a&gt;, the weekly Ruby and Rails e-mail newsletter (which just tipped 11K subscribers). Ruby Weekly now has a 'tips' page where &lt;a href="http://petercooper.wufoo.com/forms/w7x2x3/"&gt;you can submit links&lt;/a&gt; for potential inclusion so if you're releasing something or have written a cool post, fill out the form and you may be in Ruby Weekly next week :-)&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a
    href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2012/1/20/rails-3-2-0-faster-dev-mode-routing-explain-queries-tagged-logger-store"&gt;Rails 3.2 Released&lt;/a&gt;
DHH has unveiled Rails 3.2! Not quite as big a deal as 3.1 but has a faster development mode, faster route recognition, a tagged logger, and more. With Rails master now aiming at 4.0.0, it seems 3.2 may be the last version of Rails to support Ruby 1.8. &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/this-week-in-ruby-rails-3-2-rails-tutorial-and-why-you-should-learn-smalltalk-5806.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:35:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5806</guid>
      <dc:date>2012-01-28T01:35:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>This Week in Ruby: Nominate Your Ruby Heroes, Include/Extend, Ruby on Netbeans, Jekyll-Bootstrap, and more</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5799</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Welcome to this week's Web-based syndication of &lt;a href="http://rubyweekly.com/"&gt;Ruby Weekly&lt;/a&gt;, my Ruby e-mail newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;

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  &lt;a href="http://rubyheroes.com/"&gt;&lt;img height="100"
    src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/nlga/uploads/item/image/1679/thumb_rubyhero.png" width="133" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rubyheroes.com/"&gt;Vote for your 'Ruby Hero' in the Ruby Hero Awards&lt;/a&gt;
The Ruby Heroes awards run each year and present 6 community nominated 'heroes' with an award at RailsConf. Nominations are now open so go and drop your nomination for the Rubyist whose code has brightened up your life the most in the past year.
&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;&lt;a
    href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/heroku-receives-infoworlds-technology-of-the-year-award-2012-01-18"&gt;Heroku Receives InfoWorld's Technology of the Year Award&lt;/a&gt;
Sorry it's just a press release but it's great to see a company that came up from the Ruby world continue to do well. &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/this-week-in-ruby-nominate-your-ruby-heroes-includeextend-ruby-on-netbeans-jekyll-bootstrap-and-more-5799.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:32:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5799</guid>
      <dc:date>2012-01-20T16:32:12Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Last Week in Ruby: RSpec 2.8, Redcar 0.12, Torquebox 2.0 beta, articles and more</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5787</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Welcome to this week's Web-based syndication of &lt;a
    href="http://rubyweekly.com/"&gt;Ruby Weekly&lt;/a&gt;, the Ruby e-mail newsletter. While I have you, be sure to &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/rubyinside"&gt;follow @RubyInside&lt;/a&gt; on Twitter as I'm going to be posting news more frequently there than on the Web site in future.&lt;/p&gt;

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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a
    href="http://www.rubyinside.com/rspec-2-8-released-5772.html"&gt;RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic&lt;/a&gt;
RSpec 2.8 and rspec-rails 2.8.1 have been released and some users have been reporting significant performance improvements. Other tweaks include improved documentation, better tag and filtering options, random example execution, and 'rspec --init' for adding RSpec to an empty Ruby project. &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/the-last-week-in-ruby-rspec-2-8-redcar-0-12-torquebox-2-0-beta-articles-and-more-5787.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:36:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5787</guid>
      <dc:date>2012-01-16T11:36:36Z</dc:date>
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      <title>RSpec 2.8: The Popular Ruby BDD Tool Goes Supersonic</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5772</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a
    href="http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2012/01/04/rspec-28-is-released/"&gt;RSpec 2.8&lt;/a&gt; has been released, along with &lt;a href="http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2012/01/05/rspec-rails-281-is-released/"&gt;rspec-rails 2.8.1&lt;/a&gt; for the full Rails 3.x integration experience.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;RSpec is a BDD-focused testing tool that's particularly popular in the Rails world where everyone &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/dhh-offended-by-rspec-debate-4610.html"&gt;except DHH&lt;/a&gt; is using it (if you believe the hoopla). RSpec has faced accusations of being less than speedy in the past, but it seems 2.8 has had a performance firework shoved up its tailpipe:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="411"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/rspec28.gif"
    title="rspec28" width="502" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;David Chelimsky, the creator of RSpec, also &lt;a href="http://blog.davidchelimsky.net/2012/01/04/rspec-28-is-released/"&gt;notes&lt;/a&gt; that in RSpec 2.8:&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;the documentation has been significantly improved&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;there's improved support for tags and filtering&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;random example running order support (with user definable seed)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;rspec --init will create a spec directory and some starter code on a blank project - ideal for Ruby library development!&lt;/li&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/rspec-2-8-released-5772.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:53:27 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5772</guid>
      <dc:date>2012-01-07T13:53:27Z</dc:date>
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      <title>The Past 2 Weeks in the World of Ruby: 40 Links to Bring You Up to Speed (January 2012)</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5766</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://rubyweekly.com/"&gt;Ruby Weekly&lt;/a&gt; has just tipped over 10,000 subscribers but I know not everyone is into getting their news via e-mail, so here's the latest frequent roundup of the latest Ruby and Rails news for you, all on the Web :-)&lt;/p&gt;

Key News, Releases, and Headlines

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a
    href="http://hungryacademy.com/"&gt;Hungry Academy Application Process Closes This Weekend&lt;/a&gt;
LivingSocial's 'Hungry Academy' will provide a paid, on-site 5 month Ruby and Rails learning experience and mentorship program to a small group of lucky applicants. Interested? You've only got a few days left to apply. &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/the-past-2-weeks-in-the-world-of-ruby-40-links-to-bring-you-up-to-speed-january-2012-5766.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:03:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5766</guid>
      <dc:date>2012-01-06T15:03:41Z</dc:date>
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      <title>9 Ruby and Rails Jobs for January 2012</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5759</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="111"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/jobs.png"
    width="97" /&gt;Recently Forbes &lt;a
    href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2011/12/05/the-rise-of-developeronomics/"&gt;wrote about the rise of 'developernomics'&lt;/a&gt;, noting that companies are seeing programmers as a 'safe haven' investment in otherwise troubled times. Maybe.. &lt;a href="http://www.knowing.net/index.php/2011/12/09/forbes-is-wrong-about-developernomics/"&gt;maybe not..&lt;/a&gt; but the Ruby and Rails job market is as hot as ever, so if you're looking for a new position, be sure to negotiate well! ;-)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To promote a job, &lt;a
    href="http://www.rubyinside.com/post-a-job"&gt;see our Post A Job page.&lt;/a&gt; Your listing not only ends up on the Ruby Inside and RubyFlow sidebars but also in the 10114 subscriber &lt;a
    href="http://rubyweekly.com/"&gt;Ruby Weekly&lt;/a&gt; for free (as a bonus) and on our 7305 follower @rubyinside Twitter account. &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/9-ruby-and-rails-jobs-for-january-2012-5759.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 22:06:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5759</guid>
      <dc:date>2012-01-02T22:06:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Let&amp;#8217;s Build a Simple Video Game with JRuby: A Tutorial</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5726</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Ruby isn't known for its game development chops despite having a &lt;a
    href="http://mon-ouie.github.com/projects/ray.html"&gt;handful&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a
    href="http://rubygame.org/"&gt;of&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a
    href="http://www.libgosu.org/"&gt;interesting&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a
    href="https://github.com/ippa/chingu"&gt;libraries&lt;/a&gt; suited to it. Java, on the other hand, has a thriving and popular game development scene flooded with powerful libraries, tutorials and &lt;a
    href="http://www.java-gaming.org/"&gt;forums.&lt;/a&gt; Can we drag some of Java's thunder kicking and screaming over to the world of Ruby? Yep! - thanks to &lt;a href="http://jruby.org/"&gt;JRuby.&lt;/a&gt; Let's run through the steps to build a simple 'bat and ball' game now.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="324"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/mast.jpg"
    title="mast" width="640" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


The Technologies We'll Be Using
JRuby
&lt;p&gt;If you're part of the &amp;quot;meh, JRuby&amp;quot; brigade, suspend your disbelief for a minute. &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/video-game-ruby-tutorial-5726.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:34:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5726</guid>
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      <title>A Lagom Review of O&amp;#8217;Reilly&amp;#8217;s &amp;#8216;Sinatra Up and Running&amp;#8217;</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5704</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920019664.do"&gt;&lt;img
      src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/sinatra-up.jpeg"
      title="sinatra-up" width="300" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a
    href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920019664.do"&gt;Sinatra Up and Running&lt;/a&gt; is a new book published by O'Reilly and written by Alan Harris and Konstantin Hasse that covers the popular &lt;a href="http://www.sinatrarb.com/"&gt;Sinatra&lt;/a&gt; web application DSL in a brisk 103 pages, acting as a tutorial to newcomers and a handy reference for old hands.&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;TLDR: It's a short, sweet, relatively cheap and very well written book about Sinatra. Recommended. &lt;a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920019664.do"&gt;Buy here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;An interesting quirk of Scandinavian society is the concept of &lt;a
    href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jante_Law"&gt;Jante Law.&lt;/a&gt; It knocks down standing out and being individual, in favor of communal harmony. &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/sinatra-book-review-5704.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:15:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5704</guid>
      <dc:date>2011-12-14T15:15:47Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Ludum Dare for Rubyists: An Online 48 Hour Game Coding Competition</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5687</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a
    href="http://ludumdare.com/"&gt;Ludum Dare&lt;/a&gt; is an online accelerated game development event that focuses on regular 48 hour competitions. Think Rails Rumble but for games! It's been around since 2002 but has had a big publicity boost recently due to the participation of Notch, the creator of the mind-bogglingly popular indie game &lt;a href="http://www.minecraft.net/"&gt;Minecraft.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The next Ludum Dare contest is taking place this coming weekend between December 16-19, 2011 and I want to encourage Rubyists to take part. The competition tends to be dominated by Java, Flash, Microsoft XNA developers, and HTML5 developers, so it'd be great to see more Ruby entries (of which there have only been a couple so far)....
 &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/ludum-dare-for-rubyists-an-online-48-hour-game-coding-competition-5687.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:55:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5687</guid>
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      <title>Ruby News and Releases in 2011: A Retrospective</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5665</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;2011 is drawing to a close and I have been reminded of a post I made about a year ago: &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-in-2010-a-retrospective-4059.html"&gt;Ruby in 2010: A Retrospective of a Great Year for Ruby&lt;/a&gt;. 2010 was a stunning year with the release of Ruby 1.9.2, MacRuby 0.5, Sinatra 1.0, Rubinius 1.0, and...
 &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-news-and-releases-in-2011-a-retrospective-5665.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 03:36:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5665</guid>
      <dc:date>2011-12-07T03:36:44Z</dc:date>
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      <title>This Week&amp;#8217;s Ruby News: awesome_print 1.0, a new Sinatra book, and more</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5660</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Welcome to this week's Web-based syndication of &lt;a href="http://rubyweekly.com/"&gt;Ruby Weekly&lt;/a&gt; - it's bumper sized this week. And a big congratulations to David Heinemeier Hansson, creator of Rails, as he got married recently!&lt;/p&gt;

Headlines

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&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/this-weeks-ruby-news-awesome_print-1-0-a-new-sinatra-book-and-more-5660.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:36:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5660</guid>
      <dc:date>2011-12-03T00:36:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Last Week&amp;#8217;s Top Ruby News: Rails 3.1.3, autoload deprecated, and conferences</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5650</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;It's a couple of days late but here are the main headlines from the last week of Ruby news. We have a couple of Rails releases, some event news, and the usual gaggle of great articles and jobs.&lt;/p&gt;

Headlines

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2011/11/20/rails-3-1-3-has-been-released"&gt;Rails 3.1.3 Released (Very Quickly After 3.1.2)&lt;/a&gt;
This release mainly contains...
 &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/last-weeks-top-ruby-news-rails-3-1-3-autoload-deprecated-and-conferences-5650.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:02:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5650</guid>
      <dc:date>2011-11-29T00:02:39Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Using JRuby</title>
      <link>http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356654/</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356654/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9781934356654/bkt.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now you can bring the best of Ruby into the world of Java, with &lt;i&gt;Using JRuby&lt;/i&gt;. Come to the source for the JRuby core team's insights and insider tips. You'll learn how to call Java objects seamlessly from Ruby, and deal with Java idioms such as interfaces and overloaded functions. Run Ruby code from Java, and make a Java program scriptable in Ruby. See how to compile Ruby into .class files that are callable from Java, Scala, Clojure, or any other JVM language.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:07:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Sinatra: Up and Running</title>
      <link>http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449304232/</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449304232/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9781449304232/bkt.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Take advantage of Sinatra, the Ruby-based web application library and domain-specific language used by GitHub, LinkedIn, Engine Yard, and other prominent organizations. With this concise book, you will quickly gain working knowledge of Sinatra and its minimalist approach to building both standalone and modular web applications.&lt;/p&gt;

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  src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/oreilly/ruby/~4/wwKqEHtOfN4" width="1" /&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:07:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>MacRuby: The Definitive Guide</title>
      <link>http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449302054/</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449302054/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9781449302054/bkt.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With this digital &lt;b&gt;Early Release&lt;/b&gt; edition of &lt;i&gt;MacRuby: The Definitive Guide&lt;/i&gt;, you get the entire book in its earliest form -- the author's raw and unedited content -- so you can take advantage of this content long before the book's official release. You'll also receive updates when significant changes are made, as well as the final ebook version. Learn how to develop applications for Mac OS X with MacRuby, a developer-friendly language that provides access to all of the features available to Objective-C programmers, including Interface Builder, the Cocoa libraries, Objective-C runtime, and more.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:07:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>This Week&amp;#8217;s Ruby News: RSpec 2.8.0 RC1, Minitest 2.8.0, and What&amp;#8217;s New in Bundler 1.1?</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5637</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;After &lt;a
    href="http://www.rubyinside.com/this-weeks-ruby-news-ruby-1-9-3p0-omniauth-1-0-maglev-1-0-and-more-5580.html"&gt;last week's bumper set of releases&lt;/a&gt; the Ruby world seems a lot quieter this week :-) (Even here. I've been hidden away teaching my &lt;a href="http://rubyreloaded.com/"&gt;Ruby Reloaded course!&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;

Headlines
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.xydo.com/toolbar/37869317?subject_id=503"&gt;RSpec 2.8.0 RC1 Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The next significant release of RSpec is afoot and its first release candidate is now out. Key improvements come to configuration (and being able to override it from the command line) and running examples in random (and pseudo-random) order.
&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/this-weeks-ruby-news-rspec-2-8-0-rc1-minitest-2-8-0-and-whats-new-in-bundler-1-1-5637.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 04:11:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5610</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="140"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/unary.gif"
    title="unary" width="140" /&gt;In math, a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unary_operation"&gt;unary operation&lt;/a&gt; is an operation with a single input. &lt;strong&gt;In Ruby, a unary operator is an operator which only takes a single 'argument' in the form of a &lt;em&gt;receiver&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt; For example, the - on -5 or ! on !true.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In contrast, a &lt;em&gt;binary operator&lt;/em&gt;, such as in 2 + 3, deals with &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt; arguments. Here, 2 and 3 (which become one receiver and one argument in a method call to +).
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/rubys-unary-operators-and-how-to-redefine-their-functionality-5610.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:27:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5586</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="128"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/stdlib-gem.gif"
    title="stdlib-gem" width="140" /&gt;The Ruby standard library (a.k.a. stdlib) is a collection of Ruby libraries that, at one time or another, have been considered useful enough to include with the MRI Ruby implementation by standard. Due to the popularity of these libraries, other Ruby implementations have then tended to re-implement or include the standard library too.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As part of the &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-2-0-implementation-work-begins-what-is-ruby-2-0-and-whats-new-5515.html"&gt;march toward Ruby 2.0&lt;/a&gt;, the state of Ruby's 'standard library' has come up for discussion. A popular line of thinking (and IMHO, very likely to actually happen) is that &lt;em&gt;the standard library should be 'gemified' for Ruby 2.0.&lt;/em&gt;
 &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/the-ruby-standard-library-to-be-converted-to-gems-for-ruby-2-0-5586.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:28:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5580</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The rapid descent of the weather towards winter is getting people to stay in and code and long may it continue given the quality of this week's releases:  OmniAuth 1.0, MagLev 1.0, and Ruby 1.9.3, for starters!&lt;/p&gt;

Headlines
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/10/31/ruby-1-9-3-p0-is-released/"&gt;Ruby 1.9.3-p0 Released&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
The first production-ready release of Ruby 1.9.3 is finally here with patchlevel 0's release this week. I've already covered what's new on Ruby Inside (see the link below) but this is a nice step forward for MRI and worth checking out, especially if you want faster Rails loading times.
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      <pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:54:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5564</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Recently, there have been many screencasts of people coding things in real time. Yesterday, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ryanbigg.com/"&gt;Ryan Bigg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; released a video of him implementing Conway's Game of Life from scratch by reading through the 'rules' and then using RSpec to take a test driven approach to fleshing out the functionality.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Ryan is a &lt;a
      href="http://rubyheroes.com/"&gt;Ruby Hero&lt;/a&gt; and technical writer best known for being co-author of the recently released &lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://manning.com/katz/"&gt;Rails 3 in Action&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (along with Yehuda Katz) which I'll be reviewing soon for Ruby Inside. But Ryan's also been getting into doing a little screencasting.
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/screencast-coding-conways-game-of-life-in-ruby-the-tdd-way-with-rspec-5564.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:25:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449380373/</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449380373/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9781449380373/bkt.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;

Ruby and Cocoa on OS X, the iPhone, and the Device That Shall Not Be Named
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;This week brings us a new JRuby release, some Ruby 2.0 news (but you knew that already, right? ;-)) and a new BDD library that seems to have struck a chord with the people I'm following on Twitter. Also, my &lt;a
    href="http://rubyreloaded.com/"&gt;Ruby Reloaded course&lt;/a&gt; is now also over half booked out so if you're curious, definitely &lt;a href="http://rubyreloaded.com/"&gt;check it out now.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;Without further ado, here's a round up of the top Ruby news and releases from the last week, courtesy of &lt;a href="http://rubyweekly.com/"&gt;Ruby Weekly&lt;/a&gt;.
 &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:28:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356593/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9781934356593/bkt.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You should learn a programming language every year, as recommended by &lt;i&gt;The Pragmatic Programmer&lt;/i&gt;. But if one per year is good, how about &lt;i&gt;Seven Languages in Seven Weeks&lt;/i&gt;? In this book you'll get a hands-on tour of Clojure, Haskell, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, and Ruby. Whether or not your favorite language is on that list, you'll broaden your perspective of programming by examining these languages side-by-side. You'll learn something new from each, and best of all, you'll learn how to learn a language quickly.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:09:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ruby 2.0 Release Schedule Announced: Roll on 2013!</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5536</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="111"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ruby2-0.gif"
    title="ruby2-0" width="93" /&gt;Today, Yusuke Endoh posted to the &lt;a
    href="http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-core/index.shtml"&gt;ruby-core&lt;/a&gt; mailing list noting that matz has admitted him as a Ruby 2.0  &amp;quot;release manager&amp;quot; and as part of his work, he has come up with a tentative schedule for Ruby 2.0's release. You can &lt;a href="http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/40301"&gt;read the full post here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The short version of the timeline?
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-2-0-release-schedule-announced-roll-on-2013-5536.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:01:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="111"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/ruby2-0.gif"
    title="ruby2-0" width="93" /&gt;Yesterday, Matz made &lt;a
    href="https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/6b8d4ab840b2d76d356ba30dbccfef4f5fd10767"&gt;a commit&lt;/a&gt; to the MRI Ruby repository &lt;a href="https://github.com/ruby/ruby/commit/6b8d4ab840b2d76d356ba30dbccfef4f5fd10767"&gt;bumping the trunk version from 1.9.4 to 2.0.0&lt;/a&gt;, marking the start of the work of implementing the long-discussed ideas for Ruby 2.0.&lt;/p&gt;

What is Ruby 2.0?
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ruby 2.0 is the next major version release of MRI Ruby, the de facto official Ruby implementation.&lt;/strong&gt;
 &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-2-0-implementation-work-begins-what-is-ruby-2-0-and-whats-new-5515.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:00:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What Ruby&amp;#8217;s &amp;#124;&amp;#124;= (Double Pipe / Or Equals) Really Does</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5488</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="120"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/pipe-pipe-the-what-now.gif"
    title="pipe-pipe-the-what-now" width="120" /&gt;In &lt;a
    href="http://dave.fayr.am/posts/2011-10-4-rubyists-already-use-monadic-patterns.html"&gt;Rubyists Already Use Monadic Patterns&lt;/a&gt;, Dave Fayram made a passing reference to using ||= to set a variable's value if its value were 'Nothing' (false or nil in Ruby). The &lt;a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/ruby/comments/l2y8m/rubyists_already_use_monadic_patterns/"&gt;resulting Reddit&lt;/a&gt; quickly picked up on his definition (which was fixed later) and argued about ||='s true meaning which isn't as obvious as many Rubyists think. This spread to Freenode's awesome &lt;tt&gt;#ruby-lang&lt;/tt&gt; IRC channel where I picked it up.&lt;/p&gt;

Abstract (or the TLDR Version)
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A common misconception is that a ||= b is equivalent to a = a || b, but it behaves like a || a = b&lt;/strong&gt;
 &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:37:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5465</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="150"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/paperboy-150x150.jpg"
    title="AA040001"
    width="150" /&gt;Back in 2008 and 2009, Ruby Inside had a long line of &amp;quot;Interesting Ruby Tidbits That Don&amp;rsquo;t Need Separate Posts&amp;quot; posts, aimed at sharing a collection of news and libraries in one hit. In the last year, I've shifted Ruby Inside to focusing on less frequent tutorials or investigative features and have been putting all of the news on &lt;a href="http://rubyweekly.com/"&gt;Ruby Weekly&lt;/a&gt;, my weekly newsletter.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There are still many, though, who would prefer to read the news in their RSS readers or on the Web, so I'm going to be taking the things I find for Ruby Weekly each week, doing a little reformatting, and sharing them here on Ruby Inside too. The longer articles will then slot in nicely in between :-)
 &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/this-week-in-ruby-63-5465.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 22:10:53 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Thanking Ruby Inside&amp;#8217;s September 2011 Supporters</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5453</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="100"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/happy.jpg"
    title="happy" width="100" /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ruby Inside&lt;/em&gt; wouldn't be what it is without you but it's time for me to thank the companies who also help to keep Ruby Inside going by sponsoring my work. Thanks!&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I take care not to accept sponsors who have little of interest to the Ruby scene so hopefully you'll find something useful below - it's not a roster of faceless companies, these folks are doing great stuff.
 &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/thanking-ruby-insides-september-2011-supporters-5453.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 14:56:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="124"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/r193.gif"
    title="r193" width="124" /&gt;On August 1, 2011, &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-1-9-3-preview-1-released-5229.html"&gt;Ruby 1.9.3 preview 1 was released.&lt;/a&gt; The final version isn't yet out (as of September 23) but Ruby 1.9.3 is going to be the next, full production-level release of MRI Ruby. But what's the deal with 1.9.3 (and its successors, Ruby 1.9.4 and 2.0)? Keep reading!&lt;/p&gt;

The Summary
&lt;p&gt;Ruby 1.9.3 is a relatively minor improvement on the Ruby 1.9.2 we already know and love. In short.
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&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-1-9-3-introduction-and-changes-5428.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:28:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5409</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/19walkthrough/"&gt;&lt;img height="123"
      src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/vid1.png"
      title="vid1" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;In a &lt;a
    href="http://www.slideshare.net/yugui/ruby-193-and-development-of-ruby"&gt;presentation about Ruby 1.9.3&lt;/a&gt;, Yuki Sonoda notes that Ruby 1.8 has &amp;quot;no future&amp;quot; and its &amp;quot;end of life&amp;quot; is being &lt;a href="http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4996"&gt;discussed pretty seriously.&lt;/a&gt; Ruby 1.8 is becoming history, but what's the alternative? Why, Ruby 1.9! :-)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Even amongst the groups I'm involved with, I've seen a lot of resistance to Ruby 1.9. Sometimes it's because of deployment or library concerns, but often there's a hesitancy over what's changed, what's new, or what has been flat out &lt;em&gt;removed&lt;/em&gt; from 1.9. So I've been working on something to help out.. because I think Ruby 1.9 is awesome and everyone should be taking it seriously ASAP.
 &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/the-ruby-1-9-walkthrough-how-to-go-from-ruby-1-8-7-to-1-9-2-and-1-9-3-5409.html"&gt;Read More&lt;/a&gt; &amp;raquo;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:16:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A MiniTest::Spec Tutorial: Elegant Spec-Style Testing That Comes With Ruby</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5354</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/specs.png"
    title="specs" width="120" /&gt;Despite &lt;a
    href="http://rspec.info/"&gt;RSpec&lt;/a&gt;'s awesomeness, Test::Unit remains the most popular Ruby testing tool out there outside of Rails apps. I've recently been code walking through a lot of Ruby libraries for my &lt;a
    href="http://rubyreloaded.com/"&gt;Ruby Reloaded course&lt;/a&gt; and the typical arrangement is Test::Unit, sometimes coupled with &lt;a
    href="https://github.com/thoughtbot/shoulda"&gt;Shoulda&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="https://github.com/citrusbyte/contest"&gt;Contest&lt;/a&gt; for some extra syntactic sweetness.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Part of the reason for Test::Unit's enduring popularity is its presence in the Ruby standard library but, also, its general 'lightness' and speed. When you're writing a large app, using a powerful full-featured system like RSpec has significant benefits (particularly stakeholder involvement in writing the specs). But when you're working on a library that might spread far and wide and is aimed solely at developers, the pros of Test::Unit shine through.
 &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:35:17 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;Apache Hadoop is ideal for organizations with a growing need to store and process massive application datasets. With &lt;i&gt;Hadoop: The Definitive Guide&lt;/i&gt;, programmers will find details for analyzing large datasets with Hadoop, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoop clusters. The book includes case studies that illustrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:40:24 GMT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449389741/</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449389741/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9781449389741/bkt.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Apache Hadoop is ideal for organizations with a growing need to store and process massive application datasets. With &lt;i&gt;Hadoop: The Definitive Guide&lt;/i&gt;, programmers will find details for analyzing large datasets with Hadoop, and administrators will learn how to set up and run Hadoop clusters. The book includes case studies that illustrate how Hadoop is used to solve specific problems.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5329</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="111"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/jobs.png" width="97" /&gt;It seems the Ruby and Rails job scenes are on fire! I don't remember running so many jobs across a single month before. 22 Ruby and Rails jobs are here and they're spanning the world. US West Coast, East Coast, England, Scotland and Germany are all represented. It's definitely not the common &amp;quot;San Francisco or nothing&amp;quot; roundup :-)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Also fresh this time around is the mention of &amp;quot;all levels&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;junior&amp;quot; roles. At least a few of the jobs listed here today are open to all skill levels or are explicitly junior in nature. I've had a lot of readers get in touch requesting more listings like these so I'm glad they've come along.
 &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:06:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>rbenv: A Simple, New Ruby Version Management Tool</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5302</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="130"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/rbenv.png"
    title="rbenv" width="130" /&gt;&lt;a
    href="https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv"&gt;rbenv&lt;/a&gt; is a new lightweight Ruby version management tool built by &lt;a href="https://twitter.com/sstephenson"&gt;Sam Stephenson&lt;/a&gt; (of 37signals and Prototype.js fame).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The established leader in the Ruby version management scene is &lt;a href="http://beginrescueend.com/"&gt;RVM&lt;/a&gt; but rbenv is an interesting alternative if you want or need something significantly lighter with fewer features. Think of it as a bit like Sinatra and Rails. It's not about which is the best, it's about which is better for &lt;em&gt;you&lt;/em&gt; and your &lt;em&gt;current requirements&lt;/em&gt;.
 &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 02:39:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Madison Ruby &amp;#8211; A 2 Day Ruby Conference in Wisconsin With An Awesome Speaker Lineup</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5283</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="101"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/madison.png"
    title="madison"
      width="94" /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Between August 19&amp;mdash;20, 2011, Madison, Wisconsin plays host to thirty-seven speakers and panelists to discuss Ruby, OSS, and community in the form of &lt;a
    href="http://madisonruby.org/"&gt;Madison Ruby Conference.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Speakers include Jeff Casimir, Giles Bowkett, Bryan Liles, Sven Fuchs, Steve Klabnik, Brian Hogan, Jacqui Cox, Lori Olson, Gerred Dillon, Barry Hess, and Chad Pytel amongst &lt;a href="http://madisonruby.org/speakers"&gt;others.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I sat down with Jim Remsik, the driving force behind the conference, to discuss what awaits attendees.
 &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:34:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Using Ripper to See How Ruby Is Parsing Your Code</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5270</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="120"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/elementary.gif"
    title="elementary" width="120" /&gt;In the past couple of months I've seen situations arise where developers aren't entirely sure how Ruby has chosen to interpret their code. Luckily, Ruby 1.9 comes with a built-in library called Ripper that can help solve the problem (there's a 1.8 version too, see later). Here, I give the 30 second rundown on what to do.&lt;/p&gt;

A Mystery To Solve
&lt;p&gt;I've seen this confusion appear twice in the last month (the second time was what inspired me to write this post).
 &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 21:35:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The Official Ruby Site Is Proudly Maintained by No-One</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5248</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="104"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/dilapidated.gif"
    title="dilapidated"
      width="120" /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Official project sites should set the benchmark for standards relating to that project in terms of the best quality and most up to date news updates, documentation, download links, tutorials, and so forth. On this front, Ruby's official site at &lt;a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/"&gt;ruby-lang.org&lt;/a&gt; is doing a bad job.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;The site's footer says it's &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;proudly maintained by members of the Ruby community&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; and links to the homepage of the rather anonymous &lt;a href="http://rubyidentity.org/"&gt;Ruby Visual Identity Team&lt;/a&gt; who redesigned it 5 years ago. Sadly, though, the site doesn't &lt;em&gt;seem&lt;/em&gt; to get much proud maintenance and as, perhaps, the most popular destination for newbies checking out Ruby on a whim, it's not playing a strong hand.
 &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 02:15:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Careful Cutting To Get Faster RSpec Runs with Rails</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5207</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="120"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/cutting.jpg"
    title="cutting" width="120" /&gt;
&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A few months ago, Ruby Inside wrote about &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-rails-3-and-rspec-2-4336.html"&gt;using Spork with RSpec 2 and Rails 3&lt;/a&gt; in order to get a more sprightly spec run. Unfortunately, using the techniques in the article with our fledgling codebase's test suite left us with somewhat disappointing results, so I decided to dig deeper and see if I could do better.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: This is a guest post by Jon Frisby of &lt;a href="http://cloudability.com/"&gt;Cloudability.&lt;/a&gt; See the post footer for more info.&lt;/em&gt;
 &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 22:18:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1 Released &amp;#8211; What&amp;#8217;s New?</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5229</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="118"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/yay193.jpg"
    title="yay193" width="118" /&gt;Over on the &lt;a
    href="http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/ruby/ruby-talk/index.shtml"&gt;ruby-talk&lt;/a&gt; mailing list, Yuki &amp;quot;Yugui&amp;quot; Sonoda &lt;a href="http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/386024"&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt; the release of Ruby 1.9.3 Preview 1:&lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;It's important to note that this is &lt;em&gt;not&lt;/em&gt; the latest production release of Ruby 1.9 (that remains &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/ruby-1-9-2-p290-released-the-lowdown-on-rubys-latest-production-release-5145.html"&gt;Ruby 1.9.2-p290&lt;/a&gt; for now) but is a &lt;em&gt;preview&lt;/em&gt; release so you can try out your libraries and other important code ahead of the full production release of Ruby 1.9.3-p0.
 &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:01:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <link>http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449309329/</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449309329/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9781449309329/bkt.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Ready to learn Rails? Unlike most Rails books, &lt;i&gt;Learning Rails&lt;/i&gt; is for web developers, and not for programmers. You&amp;rsquo;ll start from the foundations of the Web you already know, and learn how to create something visible with Rails before reaching the more difficult database models and controller code. Learning Rails 3 covers the most recent developments.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:09:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Jenkins: The Definitive Guide</title>
      <link>http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449305352/</link>
      <description>&lt;a href="http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449305352/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://covers.oreilly.com/images/9781449305352/bkt.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Learn how to automate your build, integration, release and deployment process with Jenkins, the popular Java-based open source tool that has revolutionized the way teams think about continuous integration (CI). This concise guide shows you how to seamlessly include Jenkins in the development process&amp;mdash;and demonstrates how CI can save you time, money, and many headaches.&lt;/p&gt;

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      <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 20:39:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A Review of The Book of Ruby &amp;#8211; Pleasant Prose Meets Car-Crash Code</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5166</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="225"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/the-book-of-ruby.png"
    title="the-book-of-ruby"
    width="170" /&gt;I don't like being negative on Ruby Inside without good reason. Trivia like &lt;a href="http://www.rubyinside.com/dhh-offended-by-rspec-debate-4610.html"&gt;DHH's test library preferences&lt;/a&gt; can provide a fun talking point but pointing out specific flaws in someone's work is rarely insightful.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I wasn't going to publish a review of this book, but when I discussed the issues with people on IRC, Twitter and e-mail (trying to find someone who'd say something good about it), I was told several times to publish my thoughts, primarily to serve as a warning to newcomers who may pick it up. I agree.
 &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:52:55 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5166</guid>
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      <title>Ruby 1.9.2-p290 Released: The Lowdown on Ruby&amp;#8217;s Latest Production Release</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5145</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="120"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ruby-patchlevels.jpg"
    title="ruby-patchlevels"
    width="120" /&gt;Over at the always-riveting official Ruby blog, Shota Fukumori &lt;a href="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2011/07/15/ruby-1-9-2-p290-is-released/"&gt;has announced the release of Ruby 1.9.2-p290&lt;/a&gt;, the latest 'patchlevel' release of the current production release of Ruby MRI.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Patchlevel 290 is the first production-level patchlevel release of MRI since patchlevel 180 back in February so it's worth upgrading if you're on 1.9.2. The release post duly notes.
 &lt;/p&gt;
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      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:47:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>13 New Ruby and Rails Jobs for July 2011</title>
      <link>http://www.rubyinside.com/?p=5062</link>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img height="100"
    src="http://www.rubyinside.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/toolcrown.png"
    title="toolcrown"
    width="100" /&gt;The Ruby and Rails job scene continues to grow through 2011 and we've got &lt;em&gt;*drumroll*&lt;/em&gt; 13 (lucky for some) jobs to share from the &lt;a href="http://jobs.rubyinside.com/"&gt;Ruby Jobs board&lt;/a&gt; from companies like &lt;strong&gt;Simon &amp;amp; Schuster&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;AlphaSights&lt;/strong&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;CustomInk&lt;/strong&gt;. They're all across the US with a couple in the UK for good measure.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;To promote a job, &lt;a
      href="http://www.rubyinside.com/post-a-job"&gt;see the Post A Job page.&lt;/a&gt; A bonus is your ad gets into the 6463 subscriber &lt;a href="http://rubyweekly.com/"&gt;Ruby Weekly&lt;/a&gt; for free and our 5837-follower-strong @rubyinside Twitter account.&lt;/em&gt;
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      <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:05:10 GMT</pubDate>
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